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Arts

An Odd, Uplifting 'Alien': Meet The Man Behind A 'Weird Twitter' Star

6:19am December 19, 2015

Jonathan Sun, MIT student: "I thought it would be interesting to look at the world as an outsider." Jonnysun, Twitter celebrity: "*pets a skeleton* u used to b a baby"

Politics & Government

#MemeOfTheWeek: French Flags On Facebook

7:03am November 21, 2015

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, what could have been a unifying symbol of grief online turned out to be anything but.

Leslie Miley, former software engineer at Twitter

Economy

Q&A With The Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversity Problems

1:06pm November 06, 2015

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Leslie Miley says the company keeps an internal list of colleges and universities it wants to hire from — Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon — and says messaging like that is part of the problem.

Twitter changed its "favorite" star icon to a "like" heart icon prompting largely negative responses from Twitter users. But is it the heart they hate? Or the change itself?

Why No Love For Twitter's Hearts?

5:43pm November 03, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Twitter changed its "favorite" icon from a yellow star to a red heart. Twitter users aren't loving it, but NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam predicts it's just a matter of time.

Pope Francis' embracing of the digital world and social media has given new meaning to the word "followers" for the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis' Digital Reach Helps Put Him In Your Pocket

6:45am October 20, 2015

by Heidi Glenn

Pope Francis' social media feeds have blossomed while he's been pontiff, allowing followers to access his messages via Twitter, YouTube and also an app on their smartphones.

"The hardest thing for me was growing up without my mom. She had two jobs and so I spent a lot of time at my aunt's house," says Yasmine San Pedro, 23, in her #15Girls submission.

Share Your Story: What Was The Hardest Thing About Being 15?

1:24pm October 15, 2015

by Malaka Gharib

We're on a mission to capture the collective experience of being 15 around the world. Will you join us?

Heath Miller of the Pittsburgh Steelers makes a reception at the 1-yard line while defended by Brandon Flowers of the San Diego Chargers at Monday's game in San Diego, Calif.

Twitter's Suspension Of Sports Media Revives Debate Over Fair Use

9:26am October 14, 2015

Twitter is going after news media that share highlights of U.S. football games without sports organizations' permission. The move shines a spotlight on the notion of fair use of copyrighted content.

Queue Listen Now

Twitter's board named co-founder Jack Dorsey the company's permanent CEO last week.

National

Twitter, Its Share Price Dropping, Plans To Cut Up To 8 Percent Of Workforce

4:11pm October 13, 2015

by Jim Zarroli

How do you say, "Wall Street is getting frustrated," in 140 characters?

Twitter Is Reportedly Set To Remove 'Interim' From CEO Jack Dorsey's Title

7:55am October 01, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Twitter has been searching for a permanent CEO since the exit of Dick Costolo on June 11, following a first-quarter net loss of $162 million.

Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden appears live via video during a student organized world affairs conference at the Upper Canada College private high school in Toronto in February.

National

Edward Snowden Joins Twitter, Follows The NSA

3:35pm September 29, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

The former NSA contractor's first tweet was, "Can you hear me now?" Snowden is still in Russia, after leaking a large cache of highly classified material.